Miami-based businessman Gerardo Padilla says many people were taken aback by the ousted leader's foreign policy goals.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

I think we're taken aback here. We're taken aback by the rude interruption in the otherwise seamless flow of the poet's lament.

在这点上我们被震惊了，被这种粗鲁的打断深深震惊了,否则诗人的悲叹将会天衣无缝的流畅通顺下去。

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